Sentence examples for baroud from inspiring English sources

It was what the French term un baroud d'honneur, a final flourish of the rapier in a doomed cause.

He had to get across town for one last event, a dinner with Lebanon's Interior Minister, Ziyad Baroud.

In February, 2009, Ziad Baroud — a prominent member of Lebanon's civil society who had become the minister of the interior — released a memorandum permitting citizens to remove the statement of religious affiliation from their civil-registry documents.

Ziad Baroud, a former interior minister, who has been active on Twitter for about two weeks, is now trying to respond to questions put to him on the site.

WHERE TO STAY At Hotel Continental (36 rue Dar el Baroud; 212-5-3993-1024; continental-tangerooms) some rooms are better than others, so look before you leap; 595 to 800 Moroccan dirhams a night, about $70 to $95, at 8.45 dirhams to the dollar.

For Mr. Baroud and his friends, the bombing of the science lab building, which happened in the early days of the Israeli offensive, was a frontal attack on their future.

But it was a sojourn by Jimi Hendrix, the guitar idol who vacationed in Essaouira in 1969, a year before his death, that inspired visits by Mr. Ehrlich and countless other musicians and fans, many of whom believe that Hendrix's song "Castles Made of Sand" was inspired by Borj El Baroud, the ghostly, turreted remains of a Portuguese fort decomposing off the beach south of the city.

Having been sent by his wife to retrieve his son after the first blast, Mr. Baroud was wounded in his right knee, left hip, left wrist and neck by shrapnel from what he said was the second rocket.